EduGlu Sandbox

My journey through technology, learning and life

• Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, How to Sink America
  
  Overwhelming militarism and the erosion of social investment...
• WordPress Plugins That Play With Paper and Documents « Lorelle on WordPress
  
  Looks like a useful blog overall...
• Zotero and the Internet Archive Join Forces (Dan Cohen)
  
  "a project to provide free and open source software and services for scholars joining together with the leading open library..."
• The big question (Guardian Unlimited Books)
  
  "The highly unequal, competitive, materialistic and individualistic cultures of neo-liberal economies produce emotional distress; they cultivate the insecurities which drive hyper consumerism ... and thus they make us ill."
• In Praise of Melancholy - ChronicleReview.com
  
  "We are eradicating a major cultural force, the muse behind much art and poetry and music. We are annihilating melancholia."
• Facebook Used by Officials to Spy on Welfare Clients (thetyee.ca)
  
  'investigators use the Internet sites to look for evidence of "undisclosed co-habitation (living with someone), spending beyond what is provided by the ministry, casual employment, leaving the province for more than 30 days, gifts, pets and other income.'